ROBERT PENN WARREN

ROBERT PENN WARREN Robert Penn Warren was born in Gutherie, Kentucky in 1905. After graduating from high school, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to attend Vanderbilt University. Warren began his study working toward a major in Chemistry. Soon, the English Professors and Poets, Donald Davidson and John Crowe Ransom won him over into the analysis of Literature and Poetry. Robert's maternal grandfather, Gabriel Thomas Penn, was his essential origin of information and also, his idol. The …

…Robert is a chief figure in the Southern Literary Renaissance." Since both of his grandpa's had been Confederate Soldiers in the Civil War, he had listened to various stories about the numerous conflicts with the Union Army. Warren manifest a unique talent of "spontaneous storytelling." Several of his stories do pertain to his own past, but they also propse the feeling of a moment and a locality very acquainted to many of his faithful readers.